Tigger Pulled while slide removed??

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Gunner45

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A good friend of mine has a Kimber ProCarry, that may have had the trigger pulled when the slide was removed. Now when you cock it, there is not half cock and offten the hammer won't lock back to full cock. The hammer has followed the slide forward a few times as well. My guess is that the sear and hammer are toast. Any ideas guys?

Gunner

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Hard to say what actually happened, time to detail strip it and find out what's broken. Of course, you could just send it back to Kimber and probably get it fixed for free...
 
I think the sear is definitely hosed, but the hammer may be OK(?). From what you say, it's malfunctioning at both the half-cock and full-cock positions which makes me think of the sear. Unlikely the hammer got damaged at two different positions on it's face by a single pull. Got to take it apart and check the body count....
 
Hi, guys,

Everyone seems so very knowledgeable about this, so I am a bit afraid to say that I don't quite see how pulling the trigger with the slide removed will destroy either the hammer notches or the sear.

It can batter the front of the hammer, but not in the notch areas, and can batter the frame, but it will take a lot of dropping to hurt either. Sounds like another one of those "tales told to scare the newbies".

Jim
 
The sear spring has slipped, disconnector is tweaked, or the pistol has some sort of safety mech that has just been tweaked out of sync somehow...Maybe the thing just needs a check-up...I surely wouldn't be trying to shoot the dang thing if I didn't know exactly what was wrong with it!!!
Sheesh...may turn into machine gun kelly and ventilate the livin' room...
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A Kimber is a Colt clone, right? I go along with Jim. I don't recommend it as a regular practice, but pulling trigger and dropping the hammer with the slide off won't hurt anything.

There's no way it can hurt the sear engagement. Everything is normal except what the hammer strikes, and the sear is already out of the way.

Matter of fact, did that earlier this evening, meddling around inside one of my pet 1911s.

Art
 
It is 3;54 AM and I don't feel like taking one apart but I can't see how pulling the trigger one time with the slide removed could be sear-fatal.
 
Kuhnhausen states that you can damage the frame by dropping the hammer with the slide removed, but made no mention of any other parts. Might have hit the sear nose as the slide removed would allow the hammer to go past vertical and the sear engagement surface might be battered.
 
I am a bit afraid to say that I don't quite see how pulling the trigger with the slide removed will destroy either the hammer notches or the sear.
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That's why I suggested stripping it down to see what was really wrong! :)
 
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